{"id":33968,"date":"2017-01-31T00:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T08:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/when-the-mother-of-invention-is-a-machine-who-gets-credit"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:52:46","slug":"when-the-mother-of-invention-is-a-machine-who-gets-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/when-the-mother-of-invention-is-a-machine-who-gets-credit","title":{"rendered":"When the Mother of Invention Is a Machine, Who Gets Credit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-the-mother-of-invention-is-a-machine-who-gets-credit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush, about a thousand musical compositions and even a few recent food recipes all have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They were invented by computers, but you won\u2019t find a nonhuman credited with any of these creations on U.S. patents. One patent attorney would like to see that changed.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Abbott is petitioning to address what he sees as more than a quirk in current laws but a fundamental flaw in policy that could have wide-ranging implications in areas of patent jurisprudence, economics and beyond if his proposals are adopted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/03\/when-the-mother-of-invention-is-a-machine-who-gets-credit\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/03\/when-the-mother-of-inv...ts-credit\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush, about a thousand musical compositions and even a few recent food recipes all have in common? They were invented by computers, but you won\u2019t find a nonhuman credited with any of these creations on U.S. patents. One patent attorney would like to see that changed. Ryan Abbott is petitioning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1506,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-food","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33968\/revisions\/58947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}